The himbo, he who is “thicc of thigh and even thiccer of heart,” has enjoyed something of a cultural moment in recent years. Attention has shifted away from snarky genius characters like Tony Stark and Sherlock Holmes and gravitated toward an interest in the types of gentle portrayals of masculinity personified by Chris Hemsworth in…
REVIEW: When I Was Me Captures Colorful Snapshots of Queer Joy
Trans narratives are filled with accounts of gender dysphoria, the pain of being misgendered. These stories are important, but their cumulative weight can be difficult to carry. This is one of the many reasons why it’s critical to share positive stories of gender affirmation and pride. When I Was Me: Moments of Gender Euphoria an…
Stay Warm with the Sun and Sand Comic Anthology
After a streak of below zero temperatures in Chicago in the midst of the pandemic, I’m feeling the need for some escapism. Fortunately, I’ve got a little bit of warm, pandemic-free Florida weather sitting on my coffee table, in the form of the Sun and Sand Comic Anthology. Sun and Sand was originally set to…
Hope Nicholson on the Bonds of Comic Conventions and Having Different Perspectives
We have covered Dark Horse Comics’ Pros and (Comic) Cons at Women Write About Comics in the past, but when I got the opportunity to speak to editor Hope Nicholson at Fan Expo Canada, I couldn’t pass up the chance to chat with her about her own comic convention experiences, the process behind putting Pros…
Anthologizing Illness in Shammas’s CORPUS
CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments Nadia Shammas (editor) September 2018 Nadia Shammas’s illness-and-healthcare anthology, CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments, came out late last year, and I’ve been meaning to write about it since I got the gorgeous physical copy in the mail. A full-color, close to 300-page volume, CORPUS delivers a…
2018 Splatterpunk Awards: Collections and Anthologies
Welcome back to Bookmarked’s series reviewing every single finalist for the inaugural Splatterpunk Awards, to be presented next month at KillerCon Austin! The previous installment took a scalpel to the short stories and novellas. Now, let us move on to the categories covering books of short stories, be they single-author collections or multi-author anthologies. Editor’s…
A Compendium of Resistance: Comics for Choice Fights for Reproductive Justice
Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics Ed. Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor, and Ø. K. Fox (Editors) Summer 2017
Ghouls Rule in Wayward Sisters: Interview with Editor Allison O’Toole
When you think of monsters, who do you see? Bela Lugosi’s Dracula? Godzilla? The cute gill man from The Shape of Water? Monster stories are typically dominated by men, but a new comic anthology intends to change that. Wayward Sisters, currently running on Kickstarter, is a new collection of stories about female monsters, all made…
Step Aside, Pops: What Does a “Best Anthology” Look Like?
Step Aside, Pops Kate Beaton Drawn & Quarterly 2015 Back in September, Kate Beaton’s latest collection of her juggernaut webcomic, Hark! A Vagrant, won an Ignatz award for Best Anthology. It was up against Nick Drnaso’s Beverly, Sfe Monster and Taneka Stotts’ Beyond, Trina Robbins’ The Complete Wimmen’s Comix, and Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying. Step…